The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-12
LOS ANGELES HUMBUG.
WORKING THE CALIFORNIA BOOM.
4 Correspondent Describes the Desperate
Enort tn Attract hmm ierst ion-Dif-
ferent sections Ouarrsliug.

came into IuS Angeles this afternoon.
''Forty-two cars fun "f people from the
East arrived nj l.os Angeles during one
( slay last week.
Psrcnthetically let me remark that
YOU can take your choice of "a mode at
pronouncing the name |. .oS Angeles. and.
provided yoi, do mot select the Spanish
sound of the two words. Nou will find
authority for YOUR preference in talifor-
MIA usage. According to custom. the
Spanish names with which ia. man of
the State In literally l-->Iaitter.l are
tackled 10y each non-Spanish resident
/ whether newcomer or oid-timer. after
whatever fashion may suit his indiyid-
nal fancy aS To the eternal fitness of
things. or MAY most readily adapt itself
to the peculiar formation of his vocal
organs. The general result IL "A pictur-
esquely yariegated method of Indicating
localities. and one somewhat puzzling at
| times Ia the uninitiated hearer. Not to
multiply instances or la mark more com
plicatesi struggles for cumpromise he
tween the Spanish and English tongues.
Won may say Law Zaniellies or Iahs An
geeis-es on Loz Anglers. or give amy of
dozen other turns to the name. Il have
an acquaintance who persists in calling
the place "Iozenges, without fear OF
Icing misunderstood.
SUCCESS IN FLY-CANCHING.
The intention. however. of this letter
was not to discuss the INSTRUMENTATION
of Spanish names by the polygloI popu-
lation of the Pacific Coast. hut Ia note
the fact that the rapid growth of Les
Angeles has reused la "a keen pitch of
envy and emulation the mor" cnterpris-
ing residents of other parts of California.
The increasing frequency with which the
papers contain items of news like thos..
mn fs4I al fl.4 la..ss
tokens importing "A rapid increase of
population i'm and around the place that
glories in the appellation of "Ihc =, u H.
crn metropolis. have stirred up the innd
owners and merchants and newspaper
editors elsewhere in the State Ia inquire
how il comes that Los Angeles
contrives Ia gather i'm such schools of
well-to-lo editors. many of whom he
come permanent residents. with money
la invest in high-priced land. la various
towns of the central AMI northern coun-
lies meetings have been held to consider
the Angelic method of fishing for men
not la lie 80 uncharilable ~ Ia use the
ungodly term suckers and some com
mittees have even been sent down to
study the baits and allurements used 10y
the Angels in the actual field of their
operations. The conclusion reached 10y
the large landowners and merchants
and editors Of Central and Northern
california il thai the success of Ios
-Angel-s in catching hies. 10 Ia speak. H.
due IN the main la persistent and wide
spread advertising. without much regard
to expense and with mo- excessive scrri-
pes AZ to kind or amount of self-lauda-
tion. As "A sequence la tins discovery,
(which il a discovery only tn the SLOW.
minded. dead -and-aIiye peopIa who
make IN much the greater mari of the
population of Central and Northern Cali
formal. tb.r, il a prnsn,,.t of "A nrolonged
and excited rivalry between the several
sections of the Stat., To determine which
can devils. ia. most iuv.nious and e1yec-
tive advertising .loig.-. Ia s.-Iuce the inn
aeination and coms.I th. reason of p.,-
pie lin search of "A home" ON the hiiher
side of the Sierra Nevada. As never b,.-
fore the world AT Large il Ia be plast.red
with pamphlets and books and extra edi-
tions of newspapers sitting forth i'm
terms of ravishing enchantment each
and all of the wonders awaiting the i'm
migrant la California
THE Iupt-Isr or THE nay
~ one paper puts II. The iinpnlS'' of
the ,lay il felt up to the Oregon line"
said impuls.- haing for the most part am
to sell land nt three times
its actual value. Hitherto southern
California has had, n not "a monopoly, AT
IsaSi n disproiprtlonat. shar" of that
profitabl. industry. but il the central
and northern counties know themselves
the immediate future II to see more
equitable division of the spoils. To en-
compass that end the precincts Of Los
Angeles Themselves have been invaded
by northern emissaries. who have there
established quarters. wherein. by the ex-
hibtion of agricultural and other pro-
ducts Of their employers and by the free
use of plausible speech and captiyatjug
i'm tytre they home Ia CON
vince the wayfarer with a sack" that
To plant his cabiag,s" a. the French
saw in Ios Angeles would I,e Am almost
criminal neglect of the sunrrior attract
tions of Fresno and Santa Clara and San
joaquin and Shasta and the rest of the
northerly regions. Such attempts To
snatch the prey from the very laws Of
the Los Angeles real estate men NAV
SAVIOR of effrontery: Lnt they are GER
tainIy a tr,Iut. Ia the yr.ater eui.rn,is.
and ability of the southern division of
the State. to whose energetic enticement
is due the pr..-.nc. of p,r,... b..aring
Eastern peoI,le
Na.uraiis ih' f'iii eHtai" '"i"htS "i
t.,rtion of the plun,ier diverted Ia other
depositories than their own money chests;
and i'm the hone Of preventing that dis
agreeable finality they have even accused
their neighbOrs of the north Of a certain
amount of inaccIracy of representation.
For instance until "a comparatively re-
cent day il was supposed that the pro
duction of the orange and other citrus
fruits could he proiiiably practic.si only
in the far southern counties. of late the
central and northern counties have
boldly advanced tl,e claim that they
could not only produce oranges. but bet
ter ONES. and with more profit To the
grower. than are attainsblr la tl,- region